August 20, 2008

Breaking News: E.T. Had Peanut Allergies
Today, sources close to HighTechDad (HTD) revealed that E.T. (the Extra Terrestrial) had severe peanut allergies and was NOT homesick contrary to popular belief and media hype. Through an exhaustiveÂ and comprehensive investigation, interviews and footage analysis, HTD has uncovered a grand conspiracy that would even have shocked Agents Mulder and Scully of X-Files fame. The E.T. Conspiracy HTD has…
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August 17, 2008

“My Favorite Vacation”
My oldest daughter took a typing class this summer. She's only 9 but typing is going to be an important skill for her in the coming years so we put her in this class. As a final exercise, she wrote a short story titled "My Favorite Vacation." She took the course with a good friend of hers and they had…
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June 19, 2008

Children Should Not Be Allowed to get Sick!
All kids get sick. Colds and flu's are just part of a child's process of building immunities for their future health. When a child is sick, it is not a fun experience for either the child or the parent. But it is part of life. It's when an illness becomes a child's life that is the most devastating. It is…
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January 24, 2008

Humor: Application for Permission to Date my Daughter
I came across this today and, since I am the father of three girls, decided to make it public for possible suitors to prepare themselves as well as for other fathers who may need it. Note, this is slightly changed from the original version that I received! Below is the text from the form, however, I have created a PDF…
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September 11, 2007

Family: HTD’s Commentary on “Guy Kawasaki on Parenting” Interview
I read an interesting interview on Parent Wonder with Guy Kawasaki about fathering/parenting four children. This interview, while short, was intriguing to me as I have three children and frequently get wrapped up in technology and seeing how it can be used to better parenting (hence my quote "...where technology and fatherhood collide..."). But really, the answers below (mine and…
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September 7, 2007

These baby videos WILL make you laugh!
Just some Friday, YouTube humor to make you laugh...I hope. It's a bit contagious. Enjoy! [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5P6UU6m3cqk] With the Wii, no less! [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_mBLWpdwnI] Weird cuts on this one but still classic. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vfSk-6tIvo] This one "rips" me up! [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXXm696UbKY] This one is a bit long...but it makes me hungry! [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUUUj2DRVg8] Good thing this kid was strapped down! [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wifEc7TNioY] I had to put…
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June 19, 2007

Family Tech: Easily manage what sites your kids see with Glubble
Finally I have come across something to write about that truly talks to my site motto "where technology and fatherhood collide." It is not very often that I can write about a new service or piece of software that can help a family. Computers are now as common as TVs and now kids have computers in their rooms, at schools,…
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June 7, 2007

What HighTechDad wants for Father’s Day
I'm taking a side-step here away from my usual software and hardware posts to talk about something dear to my heart...selfishly enough, Father's Day! I already have the best 3 gifts I could ever want, three wonderful daughters! Who could ask for more than that? Not me! So why this post then? Well, the other things that Dads want are…
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May 7, 2007

HTD Roundup: Snippets of Tech that I have been playing with
It's been a while since my last post so I figured I would do yet another laundry list of things that I have been doing and technology I have been reviewing: Updated my Blog Theme to Redoable 1.2 - still a work in progress as there are some issues preventing me from showing what I had previously MAMP 1.6 -…
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March 15, 2007

Paying stay-at-home moms & dads for their work
I must admit, I was looking for financial information related to my own job when I came across this "stay-at-home mom" salary calculator. And it got me thinking, why is it that we don't reward those parents who decide to stay at home to raise their kids and forgo their professional aspirations in the process? If you think your job…
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March 5, 2007

Tivo Product Management – Are you listening? Kidzone suggestion
Sometimes I wish that I could become a temporary Product Manager at a variety of different companies...only so that I can get features into products that I use. I have many years of various types of Product Management positions, but wouldn't it be great to be able to materialize in a company, spec out a product, work with the developers…
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February 16, 2007

Our own “three wise monkeys”
The origins of the phrase "see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil" may not be truly known, the phrase, on the other hand is. Wikipedia has a small write-up of the expression and its various possible origins. On a trip to Lake Tahoe last year, my wife and I took the opportunity to have our own "monkeys" give…
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